“There’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.”

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

How many people have never raised their hand before?

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.

I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.

I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl’s leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.

I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

I haven’t done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

May your love never end and if you need a friend. There’s a seat along side me.

I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.